Addendum G. Violence in Calcutta

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14 avril 2020

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August 1947. The Great Calcutta Killing leaves 50,000 perhaps 1,00,000, dead during the Partition. 1969-71, the revolutionary terrorism of the Naxalites is matched by the bloody retaliation measures taken by the police... The story of modem Calcutta is certainly not free from severe violence. On a very different level, the communist and trade union movements have contributed to give the city an image —often exaggerated— of constant tensions. The same could be said in fact of anti-communist or...

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